Chapter 6
Beta's Saddletramp and Nakoosay
SLIM POV
I felt like my body was on fire from the inside out. I tried to open my eyes but with the pain I felt in response to trying, I wasn't in a rush. The darkness speckled with tiny dots seemed to swim before my closed eyes. I'm not a person who easily takes sick but when the spots swam faster and with my body feeling more and more like I was slow roasting over a fire, I couldn't take it anymore.
My eye lids popped open and I fell off a low bed which I had apparently been lying on and onto a hard, yet sweetly cool wooden floor. I lay there for a minute trying not to lose what tiny bit of food I had left in my stomach. The floors icy coldness helped to abate the fire which seemed to thrive in my skin. I rolled over upon my back slowly and let my stomach settle before even thinking of moving anywhere.
I gazed up at a wooden ceiling and realized that I was in a log cabin. A rather small one judging by how short the ceiling was from my position on the floor. The bed was on my left, so I turned my head to the right, trying to see what else was in this room besides the bed. There was a dresser that looked old and rather worn sitting against the wall which seemed to me to be only about 10 feet away.
I looked more downward where my feet were, and I saw what looked like the only door leading out of the room I was in. it was probably 15 feet away but I was too weak to lift myself up and sit then to get 15 feet to the door. I had to try though Jess's life depended on me and I wasn't about to let him down.
I felt in my aching bones and feverish, sweaty body that I wasn't going to be able to stand. So, I rolled back over on my stomach and started moving my body around so that I could crawl to the door. I first firmly planted my hands upon the floor then I pushed my upper torso off the ground. I started to smile at the success when sweat from the fever dripped down my arm and made one of my hands slip. I fell fast and a split second later I felt the edge of the bedpost crack into the side of my head.
I can't let Jess get to the ranch before me; they will kill him. Then there was the darkness which by now I was very accustomed to. The little spots once again were dancing before my shut eyes.
TBC
